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The LIE DETECTOR
Found Me Out
By LIONEL G. SHORT
PHE Ace of Spades, sometimes named THE
the "Death Card," bowled me over in
a test which I have just made with a lie detector.
I was in the sitting-room of the Rev. Walter T. Summers, Professor of Psychology at Ford- ham University, New York, whose invention was recently praised by the judge of a New York' State Criminal Court.
Small metal blocks rested against the palms of my hands, wires attached to them led to the amplifier, which in turn was connected with the recording instrument. Graph paper with an electric needle stood ready to record my reactions to questions put by Mr. Summers.
observed
cross-
The New Jersey policeman (left) who, as revealed in this article, was tested by Mr. Sum- mers [right] on the Lie Detector. The graph shows the changes
emotion during questioning.
of
I had already chosen, unknown stoical, and calm you are, the scrupulously to the
examiner, the ace of more suspectible you will be to formality.
every, all at one time refused admission spades from half a dozen cards the electric needle.
as evidence, although to-day he offered me. When he turned
The vibrations of the needle said, "our courts have deemed in law."
"For hundreds of years," he their right is firmly entrenched up each card and asked if that are due to alterations in the were the one I'd chosen I shook blood produced by the adrenal examination of witnesses in out of 271 persone tested on the
the examination and
Judge Colden revealed that gland.
"This gland discharges its thod so far devised to ascertain versity 49 out of 50 guilty were open court to be the best the lie detector at Fordham Uni- hormone into the blood-stream the truth, but it seems
detected, 100 out of 102 accom- to me that this lie detector or patho- plices were revealed, while other meter and the technique by
tests exonerated 119 innocent which it is used indicate a new
people.
my head to each,
100% Claim MR. SUMMERS watched under emotional stress, and the
the
needle busily hormone stimulates the heart to pencilling the record, which soon pump the blood faster." looked like an imitation Alpine range. Then he drew out the ace of spades from the pack and said that was the card I'd select.
Hongkong Telegraph.ed
MONDAY, JULY 4, 1930.,
UNPALATABLE
REMEDY
The decision of Judge Colden to admit the lie detector as evi- dence is regarded by Mr. Sum mers ан 11 great personal triumph.
and more scientific approach to "In the examination of many the discovery of truth in legal of those persons," he added, "the investigation.
results indicated 100 per cent. accuracy."
"Objections to the use of When I again answered "No," Judge Colden, who is acknow- Fingerprints, X-rays, hand-wrlt- scientific proof are not now. after the ace had been produced ledged to be one of the sanest ing, bullet the needle rose to a great peak judges in New York State psychiatric examinations
markings, and
perfect.
JURY BOX HUMOUR
were
Used by Police
THE verdict of the lie detector, although ad- mitted as evidence, is not yet accepted in court as sufficient in itself without substantiation from other sources.
which, according to Mr. Sum-t mers, proved was telling a lie.
Since he invented the lie de- tector, which he prefers to call the "truth finder," Mr. Summers It will seem an impossibly has experimented with more
The jurymen who freed a paradoxical sort of st iement, than 6,000 cases and believes the DANIEL O'CONNOR was once de- tury's verdict was: "We find him Kenny-charged with robbery
young man named Raymond but, taking the long view, many instrument to be 100 per cent.the middle of the proceedings the the trail of the
fending a mon for murder. In guilty of the footmarks and also of after he had submitted to the lic people believe that the invasion
feathers. But Before the Negro, Major
fowls." find him not guilty of stealing the have believed its veracity more we detector test, said they would, of China by the Japanese is Green, was tried for murder in likely to prove
the Mrs. Mary Robinson case in
A well-known thief, being tried if the test had been made sooner the greatest
for his life, confessed to the robbery, after the crime had been com benefit to these unhappy neigh-Summers, who reported to the
confession. The jury, in spite of this New York, he was tested by Mr.
Jury to find him guilty on his own The Judge thereupon ordered the mitted. bours of ours, whose whole police that the detector suggest-
Kenny was asked 28 questions. history is a series of conflicts, ed Green was guilty. Later the
after consulting together, him in "Not guilty."
brought Some were: "Are you mar- most of them internal. As long Negro confessed, and it was the
ried?" "What day of the week as China had these petty wars to send him to the electric chair a prisoner on the ground that there enough, for we all know him to be "Did you commit the ribbery of
lie detector chart which helped
The Judge asking the reason, the is it?" Then Mr. Summers in- foreman replied: "There is reason terpolated the probing question,
In Rhode Island a man was accused of murdering a woman, but the body was never found.
murdered man walked into Court. After recovering from the shock, the Judge told the jury to return their verdlet.
"Guilty," was the answer. posed murdered man is here alive. "But," said the Judge. "the sup
"That may foreman, "but all I
be so," replied the Imow is the prisoner stole my brown mare,"
A Judge directed a jury to acquit
was no evidence against him, but one of the greatest liars in the jury convicted, and
oni
asked why the foreman said: being country.”
"Well, my Lord, it's like this. If in the dock?"
man isn't guilty, what's he doing
the
his job after Mr. Summers had again brought in which the
man.
told escape.
me,
more
but
the
**
*
*
the
the
were
When it
were
M. Jackson.
By Lichty
which you are accused?"
The detector needle went steadily on its course, failing.to mount rapidly up the graph.
Later the prosecutor in the tríal exclaimed, "I came, I saw, tector." and was conquered by the lle de-
Lie detectors have never been officially tested by the police of Britain.
she never could have won to any real greatness as a nation. She lacked that vital quality, unity, "Fats" Waller Orchestra. without which no people can tor, reported that the man was Mr. Summers, using his detec
An assistant Judge was trying a case of nuisance, and in summing-up he enlarged so much on a definition achieve mightily. She was like innocent. Later the police learn-a friend on the jury to hold out for slek tired of listening to him. A man arrested for murder bribed of the offence that the jury a family divided against itself.
ed that the woman had
dis-n
verdict of manslaughter. The Henry Jacques Orch. Her warlords kept her poor.
appeared of her own accord.
jury were out for a long time. At passing the jury-box, he said to the When he had concluded and was A New Jersey policeman was
last they brought in a verdict of foreman, "I will now retire while you And possibly because of these accused of taking a bribe from
manslaughter. F.T. Jack Harris Orch.
are considering your verdict, but I Mr. Summers claims that his Mama, I wanna make Rhythm, F.T.
centuries of rivalries
The prisoner then rushed up to his hope you understand which a motorist, and vehemently friend and said, "I'm much obliged points I have raised.
various instrument establishes the prob- B8737-Licbestraum (Liszt). F.T..Quintete of Hot Club Orch. the national character has been tor (see picture above), and lost
inevitably culminated in battle, mitted to a test by the lie detec-other cleven wanted to acquit you." never knew before what a nulson
denied the accusation. He sub-to you. Was it hard work?"
"Oh, yes, my Lord," said the fore-ZORUNDAMENT Tho Sheik of Araby. F.T.
"Very," said the juryman. "The man. "We are all agreed that we affected. It would not be quite
How It Works Merciful verdicts arc now and was until we heard your Lordship fair to say that the people, in reported that the instrument cumstances of the case do not war-
cir-summing-up.
Hamish Fraser, Medical Expert, A case was being tried at York says underlying principle of lie the majority, had to national had recorded against the policerant. Such occurred at a Quarter before Mr. Justice Gould.
Sessions where a man was charged had proceeded for over two hours the
detectors is the recording of feeling, perhaps; but it must
with
stealing fowls,
Judge observed there
changes in breathing rate, pui- only have been dormant or very
Judge's Opinion
Ha lived not far from the hen- eleven jurymen in the box, and in- so rate, blood pressure, or in. under-developed to have failed
house which had been robbed. Foot-quired where the twelfth man was. marks, known as his led from the
the electric tension generated "IF you have a poker-hen-house to his cottage, not
"Please you, my Lord," said опе through the years to exert
far of them, he has gone away about Increases in the figures for all between each side of the body. face," Mr. Summers away. A trail of feathers also led some business, but he has left his cohesive power which it has done
"don't think you can to his cottage. There were also other verdict with me."
these factors suggest intense suspicious circumstances, in other lands. It may be that
The
Jethargic,
emotional stress revealed by this lack was responsible for the
the hormone adrenalin, or the civil strife; or it may be that the teresting to say about this war.
foreigner, has something in- GRIN AND BEAR IT
extra muscular, tension which occurs when a person is faced constant wars subdued the germ
"As long as I have been mature
with a particularly awkward of patriotism-whatever was the enough to think, I have known
question. case it has altered in the past few it was inevitable unless the months. It is not astonishing, Chinese took radical steps because it is a perfectly natural against it." She goes on to say thing and has been repeated that the Chinese and Japanese throughout history,
have been at war ideologically nation, so hopelessly divided for do not like the Japaneso and for a long time. The Chinese a time, should suddenly harden want no closer association with into a unified whole to face a them than is necessary. She; common danger. It may be that says they have long treated the Invasion was the one thing which often with indignities. She adds Japanese with contempt and could bring that unity to China, that Japan tr.lks sense when she In any event it has been accom- urges an entente with China; plised-and in the space of days only China would never accept it. Consequently, they are at Japan's aggression has done for war. the Chinese what no Emperor or This attitude of the Chinese warlord was able to do in years would seem to indicate that a of effort.
Japan, then, may just beneath the surface all the national consciousness has beeri have dono great thing while, and that it only took the for China. The treatment is desperate emergency of threaten- drastic, and is certainly not the ed conquest to bring it into full sort of thing to be recommended. unity is no longer to be question- play. In any event China's Nevertheless, great good may ed. And because of that, as grow out of this great ovli. Mrs. Buck says, "If Japan wins Pearl Buck, who knows Chinn more than a bear by the tail. the war she will find who has and the Chinese as well as any She has loviathan."
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"How well I remember your dear mother-she had feet just like yours."
ability of guilt where such exists and reveals innocence with cer- tainty.
When first testing his instru- ment the professor used it as a game among his students. One of them was chosen to steal something and the others became his
accomplices. Under the stern influence of the lie detector Mr. Summers would discover the criminal, name his accomplices, and free the innocent man.
Its popularity, is threatening to take the inventor away from his professorial duties, and he almost wishes he had never in- vented it, so insistent are the demands from public officials and private people for tests.
The New York State Police crime laboratory at Schenectady has already included the inven- tion in its equipment.
The great question now con- Fronting criminal authorities is, "Has Mr. Summers. added an in- fallible instrument to be legal mothods of catuking criminals?"